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Officers routinely lied to obtain search warrants
By STEVE VISSER | A former Atlanta police officer testified Thursday that narcotics officers routinely lied under oath when seeking search warrants a practice that led to police killing a 92-year-old woman. Former Detective Gregg
Read More »Will the Mortgage Industry Pay for Its Crimes?
By Danny Schechter | There is a time in the life of every writer when you find yourself fearing that you have become a robo call phone machine — repeating the same message over and
Read More »Judge May Make CIA Torture Memo Public
AP | The CIA must let a judge view a 2002 memo purportedly including waterboarding among interrogation methods to be used on prisoners in U.S. custody so he can decide whether it should be made
Read More »Roots of surveillance standoff go back decades
By Shane Harris | In the old days, everyone was linked to a lug nut, and Jim Kallstrom liked it that way. It was 1985, a simpler time for a cop like Kallstrom, who
Read More »U.S. deploys more than 43,000 unfit for combat
By Gregg Zoroya | More than 43,000 U.S. troops listed as medically unfit for combat in the weeks before their scheduled deployment to Iraq or Afghanistan since 2003 were sent anyway, Pentagon records show. This
Read More »UN suspends aid flights after Burma impounds food
By Rachel Stevenson, Julian Borger, Ian MacKinnon and agencies | The UN today suspended aid flights to Burma after emergency supplies for survivors of cyclone Nargis were impounded by the military government. A spokesman
Read More »BBC kept £106,000 of charity cash
By Leigh Holmwood | The BBC today apologised for keeping £106,000 made from premium-rate phone calls on about two dozen shows that should have been given to charity. In the latest scandal to hit the
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